Finland's collapse is continuing, but no politician or public manager admits to having done anything wrong.

“Finland, formerly number one in the OECD, has fallen to 31st place among 38 countries. The ministry states that the collapse in education levels is reflected in low employment”. It can be added to a list of 20 points that have been reported by international researchers, Finnish government officials and Finnish organizations. Interestingly, no politician or public manager admits to having done anything wrong. 6 pages.

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“Finland, formerly number one in the OECD, has fallen to 31st place among 38 countries. The ministry states that the collapse in education levels is reflected in low employment”.

“– It looks really bad, because right now the level of education in Finland has dropped. We are already below 40 percent, so we have been going backwards for the last two years, says OAJ's education director Nina Lahtinen”.

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Checking the OECD ranking, Sweden remains at place 10 in the ranking, that is, the upper quartile. Finland is at the lower quartile.

This difference is also true when it comes to economy, entrepreneurship, and innovative thinking. And according to Henrik Wickström, a Finnish politician, the decline has been going on for almost 20 years.

Here is a list of things reported by international researchers, Finnish government personnel and Finnish organizations:

1. Finland is marked by Tribalism (Pagel, 2019).
   
   
2. Finland has a child obesity epidemic (Eva Roos, Folkhälsan, fall, 2020).
   
   
3. Women's relation aggressiveness (psychological domestic violence) is the big challenge (Helsingfors Police Department, April, 2022).
   
   
4. School is at rock bottom – Too many Finnish kids fail reading comprehension and numeracy (the foundation for rational thinking (Stanovich, 2011, 2016) (The ministry for education and culture, May, 2022). Why? see point 2.
   
   
5. 20% of children and young people born in 1997 or later have mental challenges (Pekkarinen, November 2022).
   
   
6. Between 2007 – 2022, Finland has had a fiscal deficiency (lost money every year); Sweden had a fiscal surplus (earn money every year) (Harald, HBL; 2022).
   
   
7. The research at the University of Helsingfors has, and I quote, collapsed (Bäckgren, 2023).
   
   
8. Finland has the highest prevalence of Alzheimer's/dementia in the world: inland has the highest prevalence of Alzheimer's/dementia in the world:

   “The country with the most cases of Alzheimer's Disease is Finland. There are 54.65 cases of Alzheimer's for every 100,000 people in this country. These numbers and statistics put Finland in the extremely high occurrence and high prevalence range for the disease. Interestingly, females are much more likely to have Alzheimer's in Finland than males. For every 100,000 people, Alzheimer's impacts 55.32 females compared to just 52.10 males” (WPR).

9. Finland's rate of Alzheimer's is twice as high as neighboring Sweden:
   
   19.9% of Finns who die, die of dementia, and in particular Alzheimer's disease.
   
   

   

   Prevalence of welfare diseases in Finland.

   
   Among Swedes who die, 9.8% die of Dementia/Alzheimer's.
   
   

   

   Prevalence of welfare diseases in Sweden.

   
   
10. Psychological domestic violence (relational aggressiveness) and lethal violence against small kids has increased (Pekkarinen, November, 2023). Why? see point 2.
    
11. Finland has the highest prevalence of depression within the EU (Estlander, November 2023).
    
    
12. 40% of Finnish schoolchildren are victims of psychological violence in the home (Estlander, November 2023). Psychological domestic violence = relational aggressiveness, which is typically female.
    
    
13. The working climate in Finnish workplaces is poor (Helsinki Times, februari, 2024).
    
    
14. At the Summer Olympics in Paris, Finland took home 0 medals. Sweden: 11 medals (one per million).
    
    
15. 50% of Finnish women and 33% of Finnish men, over 45 years of age, are expected to suffer from a serious brain disease (Finnish Brain Foundation, 2024). They meant Alzheimer's/Dementia.

    “One in two women and one in three men over the age of 45 will develop a serious brain disease during the rest of their lives.
    
    Indirectly, the disease affects even more people – family members, friends and colleagues”.

    
    
    
    
16. Entrepreneurship and innovation thinking are at rock bottom. Why is Sweden doing so much better? (Sitra, December 10, 2024).
    
    
17. Schools have challenges – children are not able to cope with reading comprehension and numeracy (Ministry of Education and Culture, April, 2025). Same as 2022. Why? see point 2.
    
    
18. 73% of Finnish women and 70% of Finnish men are expected to receive a diagnosis of mental/psychiatric illness (University of Helsinki, July, 2025).
    
    
19. Finland's economy is back to 1996 levels (Orpo, July 26, 2025).
    
    
20. On November 25, 2025, Henrik Wickström claimed:
    
    “Today the EU Commission announced that it is proposing that Finland be placed under the EU’s excessive deficit procedure. The reason is that Finland’s public debt will exceed the equivalent of 90 percent of GDP next year”.
    
    “What worries me, of course, is that we have not had growth for almost 20 years.”
    
    
21. On December 25 2025, Finnish MTV reported that Finland's has fallen to place 31, out of 38, on OECD's school ranking.

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